Happy Summer Swift Families! What a stupendous year this turned out to be, and we ended it with all of the celebrating and joy your hard-working students deserved. Within the past few weeks, we’ve held both our fun-filled FUNdRun and our Field Day, students put their talents on display at the Talent Show, we had our last Round Up of the year and honored our most beloved (and retiring) music teacher, Mr. Clark, and we said goodbye to our 5th, now 6th graders with a beautiful promotion ceremony and a schoolwide clap out. It’s truly been a great year to be a Swift!
Many Many Thank Yous! One of our June celebrations included acknowledging volunteers who’ve worked in classrooms, the garden, and at recess. Volunteers chaperoned field trips and coached Oregon Battle of the Books. And of course, volunteers from our PTA organized some of the most fun events we’ve ever had! Every volunteer makes a huge difference for our school and we appreciate you!
Next year, we will be experiencing some staffing changes. Some of these changes are still being worked out at the district, so you’ll see a few TBDs on our list for next year. Here’s what we know so far:
K: Ms. Mulvihill, Mr. Riccardi
1st: Mr. Franklin, Ms. Mabry, Ms. Sutton
2nd: Mr. Kelley (new teacher to Chapman), Ms. Schaedig
3rd: Ms. Lyons, Ms. McLaughlin
4th: Ms. Anderson (new teacher to Chapman), Mr. Bush, Ms. Gennie
5th: Ms. Ritzinger, Mr. Schreib
Music: TBD
PE: TBD
Library: Ms. Juska
Art: Mr. Gostovich
Please read on for an important message from Ms. Rosoff our Reading Specialist:
Happy Summer! Your kids worked hard this year, learned a lot, and now it is time for them to have some fun. HOWEVER, did you know that research has shown that students can lose 20% to 30% of their learning over the summer months? Here are some ideas for you to help prevent the summer slide!
1- READ and WRITE EVERY DAY! 15 minutes is the minimum!
2- Access links to learning opportunities on this Soaring Into Summer page that I created.
3- If the slide does not load, see the links below for
APPS on Classlink accessed through My PPS. Click here for the Instructions to log on. You can log onto I-Ready Math here, also. Here are my top picks to keep up reading skills-
** LEXIA (available through July)
** Learning A-Z
* Learning Ally
* Sora
*Tumblebooks
If you google search WORDWALL Fundations, a bunch of fun games will come up. Choose a game that matches your child's level.
Khan Academy Kids: If your student is in Kindergarten or First grade, OR, if your child was in Reading Results or Reading Intervention this year, this is a great place to start!
Khan Academy 2nd grade: If your child is able to read stories independently, this is a good option for practice.
Decodable stories
Have a WONDERFUL summer!
